Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett
Warren Edward Buffett is an American business magnate, investor and philanthropist. He is considered by some to be one of the most successful investors in the world. Buffett is the chairman, CEO and largest shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway, and is consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people. He was ranked as the world's wealthiest person in 2008 and as the third wealthiest in 2015. In 2012 Time named Buffett one of the world's most influential people...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth30 August 1930
CityOmaha, NE
CountryUnited States of America
When you get to my age, you’ll measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. That’s the ultimate test of how you’ve lived your life.
An investor should ordinarily hold a small piece of an outstanding business with the same tenacity that an owner would exhibit if he owned all of that business.
Risk can be greatly reduced by concentrating on only a few holdings.
Diversification may preserve wealth, but concentration builds wealth.
Only those who will be sellers of equities in the near future should be happy at seeing stocks rise. Prospective purchasers should much prefer sinking prices.
The critical investment factor is determining the intrinsic value of a business and paying a fair or bargain price.
You're neither right nor wrong because other people agree with you. You're right because your facts are right and your reasoning is right - that's the only thing that makes you right. And if your facts and reasoning are right, you don't have to worry about anybody else.
The stock market is a no-called-strike game. You don’t have to swing at everything – you can wait for your pitch.
It’s class warfare; my class is winning, but they shouldn’t be.
I really like my life. I've arranged my life so that I can do what I want.
We have long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune-tellers look good.
You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you.
Don't risk what is important to you, to get what is not important to you.
If principles can become dated, they're not principles.